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Close-up of a bamboo viper, Trimeresurus stejnegeri, showing its green scales, heat-sensing pit between the eye and nostril, and vertical slit pupil.
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Pit viper
Chinese green tree viper (Trimeresurus stejnegeri). Pit vipers have heat-detecting...
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